RESEARCH SCHOOL - ECOLE DE RECHERCHE
Thermodynamic Formalism: Modern Techniques in Smooth Ergodic Theory
(event 2110)
Formalisme thermodynamique : Techniques modernes en théorie ergodique
Dates: 01-05 July 2019
Place: CIRM (Marseille Luminy, France)

PRE-REGISTER HERE BY 15 APRIL 2019

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SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS

PARTICIPANTS

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

DESCRIPTION

The school will be based on courses and survey lectures covering the following topics:

(1) Introductory lectures on Thermodynamic Formalism
(2) Transfer operators and anisotropic Banach spaces;
(3) Geometric zeta functions and Microlocal analysis;
(4) Statistical Properties;
(5) Gibbs measures and Geometry;
(6) Weil-Petersson, Teichmuller geodesic flows, Translation surfaces
(7) Fractal Geometry

Mini-courses will include:

F. Paulin, "Rate of mixing for geodesic flows with Gibbs measures in negative curvature and trees"

F. Rodriguez Hertz, "Introduction to rigidity in hyperbolic dynamics"

C. Liverani, "Averaging and beyond for fast-slow hyperbolic systems"

F. Faure and M. Tsujii, "Micro-local methods in hyperbolic dynamics"

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Mark Pollicott (University of Warwick)
  
• Sandro Vaienti (Aix-Marseille Université & Université de Toulon)
  

PARTICIPANTS

• Viviane Baladi (CNRS - Sorbonne Université)
  
• Jérôme Buzzi (CNRS - Université Paris-Sud)
• Jean-René Chazottes (CNRS - Ecole polytechnique)
• Frédéric Faure (Université Grenoble Alpes)
  
• Giovanni Gallavotti (University of Roma La Sapienza)
• Nicolai Haydn (University of Southern California)
• Thomas Jordan (Bristol University)
• François Ledrappier (CNRS - Sorbonne Université / Paris Diderot)
• Carlangelo Liverani (University Roma Tor Vergata)
• Frédéric Paulin (Université Paris-Sud)
• Federico Rodriguez Hertz (Penn State)
• Mike Todd (University of St Andrews)
• Masato Tsujii (Kyushu University)
• Mariusz Urbanski (University of North Texas)
• Amie Wilkinson (University of Chicago)
• Hong-Kun Zhang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  

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